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Thanks guys! If someone plans to visit this place, just give me a call and we'll work out a nice trip (in style, with the deuce, of course). @ BC: no, that was when I had trouble with the surpressor. I worked that out after the trip, thanks for your help! Mark

Just as a round up, we've been there a second time, and were able to enter a casemate that was closed for at least two decades and had the deepest staircase I have ever seen in these structures (about 9 Levels under ground). See http://www.m35-deuce.de/gallery/200805_maginot/index.html Have a...

Ryan, please forgive me, but I have to dispute this a little :-) I agree to a lot of your points, but: The Maginot Line is long and there surely were various tactics on the german side to deal with it. In the Haguenau sector (Alsace) the tactic was definitly to attack it frontally to knock the...

Ryan, actually the line was assaulted frontally on some presumably weak points. The damage you see on the cupolas above are a result of that. In my opinion and from what I know the technical and organizational aspects of the Maginot Line were among the most modern on the time when it was...

Just for a little round-up, below is a schematic picture of the casemate of Bois de Hoffen sud (south) to which the above image of the staircase belongs to. The view of the camera is marked in the schematic by the red arrow. @medlog: Simserhof is definitly on my list of field trips...

Maxim, under those cupolas are large underground structures with tunnels that lead vertically upwards into the cupola itself. The crew was standing on a platform which could be lowered and raised very quickly, and when a cupola was under fire no one was in there (usually). But I agree, the...

Hi, we took the restaurated deuce to a trip over the border to France, where we visited the Hagenau-section of the Maginot-Line. For the historically inclined there is a good coverage of the matter in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line . The trip covered a lot of off-road...